Primary Probation And Research On Occupational Commitment Scale For Middle School And Elementary School Teachers

Commitment is an important factor of one' s occupational development. The high occupational commitment can bring about an advance in occupations effectively. Teacher, as an occupation of helping himself by helping others, cannot do help for his career development. The research developed an inventory on occupational commitment for the middle and elementary school teachers, and used it for a preliminary study.Firstly, on the basis of synthesizing the relational studies on commitment home and abroad, the paper developed a script questionnaire by talking to teachers, investigating with an open questionnaire, using the questionnaire for trials. Then, the questionnaire was passed to different areas, different ranks and different kinds of schools to investigate 415 teachers working in the middle schools and elementary school as well as the infants' school. By using different statistics analytical methods to carry on the data analysis synthetically on the basis of 362 valid questionnaires, it has gained occupational commitment model for middle school and elementary school and the infants' schoolteachers and developed the questionnaire. This model includes 4 factors, commitments of ideal values, the obligation norms, the chance cost, and the realistic value separately. The research analyzed the reliability of inventory and found that the Cronbach α coefficient is 0.904 and the Split-half coefficient is 0.860. The paper also examined the scale' s content validity, structure validity and criterion validity and found the questionnaire is good in these validities.Then the research exerted a formal investigation with the...